Films you shouldn't like ...but do.

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So I was reading the 'avoid these films' thread. And it made me think about the vague social embarassment I have when I think of some films I've enjoyed. Not just films like 'Resident Evil', which I could happily watch again.

I mean films I think are ace.

I'm going to stand up and state it aloud. I loved 'Elektra'. I was cheering in the cinema. I bought the DVD and showed it to my dad.
 
I can't think of any movies that give me any hesitations in saying I like them. I don't care if others like them or not. However, there are many films I love that I know aren't 'critically acclaimed' whatever that means anymore. An example of one of these is Top Secret. I love this movie. I think it is smart and dumb at the same time, it makes me laugh, think and I get to look at Val Kilmer at the same time. Where could you go wrong?

Of course, then there are the movies that other people think are fantastic that I think suck cockroach feet...like Wedding Crashers. I'm a big Owen Wilson fan but this was definitely not one of his best efforts. I had to stop watching because it was annoying me.

Of course, I don't see too many movies these days so I don't have a lot of examples.
 
dwndrgn said:
I can't think of any movies that give me any hesitations in saying I like them. I don't care if others like them or not.
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Oh, God Bless your confidence. I wish I could be that strong. I've been yelled down too often in my celebration of "Elektra".

My dad did like it, though. And he admits it too, when my mum isn't there sniggering at us. She's a culture snob.

dwndrgn said:
Of course, then there are the movies that other people think are fantastic that I think suck cockroach feet...
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Yep, for me such films are "Good Will Hunting" and "Donnie Darko". Monstrously Pants.

I bought the Donnie Darko DVD in a Woolworths bargain bin, and having discovered the worst was planning to sell it second hand on Amazon, but then a newspaper here started giving copies away, and now I'll never be rid of it.
 
Ah, lucky I caught this thread before I did one of my own ("Films so Bad, they're Good", since you didn't ask! :D )

For me, I loved "The Last Starfighter", "Flight of the Navigator" & "Starchaser: The Legend of Orin"

But then I am an eighties boy :)
 
dwndrgn said:
The Beastmaster is commonly held to be crap. I love it though (and it doesn't have anything to do with a specific character's loincloth only wardrobe...:D )
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dwndrgn said:
... Top Secret. I love this movie. I think it is smart and dumb at the same time, it makes me laugh, think and I get to look at Val Kilmer at the same time...
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There's a theme here.

Something to do with looking at chaps, isn't it?
 
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings by Ralph Bakshi... an instant favourite :D
 
The Flight of the NAvigator :D HAven't seen that for years. I can't really think of any examples of my own except perhaps ... Galaxy Quest and Williow ~ DragonHeart even ~ but I love them all :p
 
Hmmm I dont know if I feel embarressed about liking films others percieve to be below par but some of the films I like that others dont are:

The Goonies
Dungeons and Dragons
Kill Bill 1 & 2
Dogma (one of my fave films ever)
Bill and Ted films
Hell boy
The thing
the never ending story



 
The Neverending Story had occured to me too. Do you know on imdb.com it is listed as Die Unendliche Geschichte? I never even knew it was German.
 
Zoolander. Silly film, and I love it. So much that I watched it twice in one day once. Part of it is the Owen Wilson thing. Like dwndrgn, I really like him. He even makes Armageddon watchable. But even beyond that, the movie makes me laugh so much.

The Princess Diaries. This is a teenager movie, pure and simple. I'm too old for that kind of thing. But it's just so sweet, and I can identify with the part where Mia talks about how her ambition in life was to just be invisible, and how she was so good at it.

Road House. The plot is so worn out that it should dissolve like a wet paper towel. All it is, is an excuse to stage fight scenes and show Patrick Swayze with his shirt off. Which, I will admit, is not really a bad thing. But I do like this movie a lot.

I'm sure there are others, but these are the ones I can think of right now.
 
Ohh so many movies... but one for me stands out above the rest, Hercules Returns.

In the early 90's some aussie comedians did some shows where you would go to a cinema, watch a really bad movie but the 3 comedians would do all the comentary/dialoge live (aka mystery science theatre). I'm pretty sure they were called Double Take at the time.

Anyway they had a brief bit of success and a movie was made. There's a very very very thin plot about a guy leaving the multinational company to reopen an old theatre and deciding to open with the last movie that played. As it turns out this is a 70's Italian muscleman movie about hurcules, thanks to the evil villian it arrives with no sound and the rest of the movie is the three comedians doing the voice over to the movie.

Make no mistake this is a very silly film but to me atleast absolutley hilarious :D .

some good movies Kyektulu, although never ending story would make my head hurt, I got a good laugh out of Mallrats as well. i know its maybe not disliked but i could watch the princess bride a million times and still laugh... some other mentions...

Tremors
The Labyrinth
Ma and Pa Kettle movies
The whole nine yards
The secret life of walter mitty
 
The Gods Must Be Crazy - absolutely one of the two funniest movies ever. Along with Clockwise the only two movies that made me laugh hard enough to fall off the couch. Though, I laughed hard enough in the theater watching A Fish Called Wanda that my friends wanted to disassociate with me...)


(and yes, Grown Up, if I get a chance to ogle a good looking man, I'll do it :D , but there has to be something else to get me there. In Beastmaster, it is the magic and the beasts, including the terribly hand painted Bengal tiger made to look like a black tiger. In Top Secret it is the outrageous comedy and the surprisingly good songs.)
 
Wait. I like Flight of the Navigator, too.

hermi-nomi said:
The Flight of the NAvigator :D HAven't seen that for years. I can't really think of any examples of my own except perhaps ... Galaxy Quest and Williow ~ DragonHeart even ~ but I love them all :p
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Oh, no! I didn't know that I wasn't supposed to admit my affection for Willow. I loved that movie. I also liked Galaxy Quest. I remember buying the theater ticket simply because I was in the mood for the experience of diving my hand into a greasy bag of overpriced popcorn, and that movie was the only one out at the time that I hadn't already seen. I was pleasantly surprised.

The film that I liked, probably because I remember watching it so many times as a kid, was Howard the Duck. I wish Lucas would get over his embarrassment and let the thing wade in the DVD release market.
 
am i allowed to say Pretty Woman ?




alright alright i know, i'm sorry.. bless that prostitute though!!!
 
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